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inteneration

inteneration noun: a softening.

Noun

inteneration (usually uncountable, plural intenerations)

  1. (usually) A softening.
    • all things with us tend to rarefaction, and desiccation, and consumption; nothing hardly to condensation and inteneration, except by mixtures and methods that may be called spurious.1858, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, et al., transl., Instauratio Magna
    • inteneration of policing methods without sacrificing discipline2017, Praveen Kumar, Policing for the New Age

Forms of inteneration

pluralintenerations

Questions about inteneration

What does inteneration mean?
Inteneration means a softening.
What part of speech is inteneration?
Inteneration is a noun.
What is the plural of inteneration?
The plural of inteneration is intenerations.

Words near inteneration in the dictionary

  1. intends
  2. intenerate
  3. intenerated
  4. intenerates
  5. intenerating
  6. inteneration
  7. intenerations
  8. intenible
  9. intensate
  10. intensated
  11. intensates

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